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CZ.NIC Association Announce the Installation of the L Root Server in Prague,
Czech Republic</span></h2>
<p style="margin-top:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
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October 2009</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Marina del Rey, CA </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">— October 26, 2009 — ICANN and the
CZ.NIC Association today announced the installation of the L Root Server in
Prague, Czech Republic. The L Root Server is one of the thirteen Root Name Servers
which underpins the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The installation in Prague
expands L's footprint into Europe, in combination with installations in Miami
and Los Angeles. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">"By providing a mirror
for the L Root Server we attempt to support the Internet infrastructure not
only in our country," said Ondrej Filip, Executive Director of the CZ.NIC
Association. "The L Root Server in Prague serves the entire Internet,
globally." </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The DNS is involved in almost
every service provided over the Internet, and as such its security and
stability is very important. The performance and reliability of web sites,
social media, e-mail and instant messaging all depend on the DNS, as do business-to-business
communications which increasingly tie together the global economy. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Joe Abley, Director of DNS
Operations at ICANN, stated that "ICANN is pleased to be able to work with
CZ.NIC to provide local access to the L Root Server in Prague. This new installation
will contribute to security and stability of the Root Server system globally,
and especially in the European region." </span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">About ICANN: </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To reach another person on
the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a
number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each
other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without
that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet. ICANN was formed in
1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from
all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and
interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet’s
unique identifiers. ICANN doesn’t control content on the Internet. It cannot
stop spam and it doesn’t deal with access to the Internet. But through its
coordination role of the Internet’s naming system, it does have an important
impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet. For more information
please visit: <a href="http://www.icann.org/">www.icann.org</a>. </span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">About CZ.NIC: </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">CZ.NIC, z. s. p. o., is an
interest association of legal entities, founded in 1998 by leading providers of
Internet services. The association currently has 63 members. The key activities
of the association include operation of the domain name registry for the .CZ
domain and the 0.2.4.e164.arpa (ENUM) domain, operation of the CZ top- level
domain and public education in the area of domain names. The association is now
intensively working on development of the ENUM system, extension and
improvements of the domain administration system and support of new
technologies and projects beneficial to the Internet infrastructure in the
Czech Republic. CZ.NIC is a member of international organizations uniting
similar organizations around the world (CENTR, ccNSO and more) and a member of
the EURid association, managing the European domain .EU. </span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ICANN: </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Brad White<br>
email <a href="mailto:brad.white@icann.org">brad.white@icann.org</a><br>
phone +1.301.365.3571<br>
<a href="http://www.icann.org/">http://www.icann.org </a></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">CZ.NIC: </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Vilém Sládek<br>
e-mail <a href="mailto:vilem.sladek@nic.cz">vilem.sladek@nic.cz</a><br>
phone +420 222 745 117<a href="http://www.nic.cz/"><br>
http://www.nic.cz/</a></span></p>
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